That a defenceless, impoverished country such as Yemen can be openly
bombed by hundreds of US-supplied F-15 fighter jets – and for that
criminality to be widely endorsed – is a sure sign that the world is
once again sliding into the abyss. Continue

Quite a few people – in Donbass, in Moscow, and now in Europe – have
asked me what struck me most about this visit. I could start by
paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg in Howl – “I saw the best minds of my
generation destroyed by madness”. Continue

As law and order break down in more and more places, we will see more
and more US troops on the streets of cities in the US, spreading death
and destruction just like they did in Iraq or in Afghanistan. Continue

Saudi Arabia kills 45 people in refugee camp in Yemen:
Monday: At least 45 people have been killed in an air strike that struck
a refugee camp in the northern Yemeni region of Haradh according to the
International Organization for Migration. A humanitarian official
earlier said the bombing had targeted a military installation in the
vicinity of the camp.

Dozens killed as Yemen tribes clash with Houthis:
Fighting erupted when tribal fighters attacked a Houthi-held area near
Asailan. Almost thirty were killed among the Houthis and their loyalists
during confrontations which also killed eight members of the tribes, a
security source told Al Arabiya.

Saudi-led forces strike Yemen rebels, blockade
ports:Saudi-led naval forces imposed a blockade on Yemen's
ports as coalition airstrikes on Monday repelled an advance on the
southern port city of Aden by Shiite rebels and forces loyal to a former
president, in what appeared to be the most intense day of fighting since
the air campaign began five days ago.

Saudi envoy denounces Nasrallah’s speech as
‘slanderous’: “The speech made by
Hezbollah’s General Secretary Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah expressed the
confusion experienced by the sides he represents [Iran], and contained a
lot of slander and false allegations against the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia,” Asiri said in a statement.

Twin Car Bombings in Baghdad Kill At Least 11:
Iraq: Monday: Shortly before noon,
the two explosive-laden cars went off simultaneously in a commercial
area of the Shiite-dominated Husseiniyah district in northeastern
Baghdad, a police officer said. Two policemen were among the dead. At
least 26 people were wounded in the attack, he added.

Iraq forces retake government HQ in Tikrit from
IS: Iraqi forces have retaken the
Salaheddin provincial government headquarters in Tikrit from the Islamic
State jihadist group, a significant advance in the battle to recapture
the city, officials said Tuesday.

IS Killed 44 in Syrian Village.
Islamic State group militants killed Tuesday at least 44 people in
Mabuja, a government-held village in central Syria. The violent Islamist
group launched the attack Tuesday in a region which is known for its
diverse religious sects, including Christian, Ismailis and Alawites.

26 killed in Syria attacks:
A total of 14 people, including two women and two children, died in
ground-to-ground rocket attacks and military air raids in Idlib, the
capital city of the eponymous northern province that has been under the
control of Al Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front since Saturday, when its
troops expelled pro-regime forces.

14 killed in Syria car bomb blast: At least 14 people were killed on Tuesday when
a booby-trapped car went off in the Syria's southern province of Daraa,
a monitoring group reported.

Former Israeli Premier Olmert convicted in
corruption case: Former Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert was convicted Monday of unlawfully accepting money
from a U.S. supporter in a retrial on corruption charges, the latest
chapter in the downfall of a man who only years earlier hoped to lead
the country to a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Libya's Tripoli-based parliament sacks prime
minister: In an effort to address the
country's political crisis, delegates from the rival administrations
have been meeting at UN-brokered talks in what has been described as one
of the last chances to stop the country from plunging into a full-scale
civil war.

33 Insurgents Killed in Latest Offensive in
Helmand: In the latest offensive, at
least 33 Taliban insurgents were killed and seven others wounded over
the past 24 hours in Sangin district of southern Helmand, the Ministry
of Defense (MoD) said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ukraine lost five Indian airplanes:
Five Indian transport airplanes from 40 shipped to Ukraine for
modernization under the contract signed in 2009 have disappeared,
according to the publication Defense News with reference to the official
from Indian Air force.

French local elections: Conservatives triumph
over left: France's opposition
conservative UMP Party has made big gains in local elections, at the
expense of the ruling Socialists. The UMP, led by ex-President Nicolas
Sarkozy, boosted the number of councils it controls from 40 to 67 in the
vote.

NSA shooting: One dead after car rams security
gate: One person is dead and at least
one other is severely injured after a shooting at a gate to the US
National Security Agency headquarters. An unnamed official told the
Associated Press that gunfire broke out after a car tried to ram the
gate to the sprawling military campus near Washington DC.

Don’t See Evil:
Google’s boycott campaign against war photography and alternative media

U.S. and Saudi geo-strategic interest in containing the influence of
Iran has trumped international law and any concerns about the lives of
the people of Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain. Continue

The brutal ‘Islamic State’ is a symptom of a deepening crisis of
civilisation premised on fossil fuel addiction, which is undermining
Western hegemony and unravelling state power across the Muslim world.
Continue

Houthis told to 'surrender' at Arab League
summit:Yemen's
president has called on Houthi fighters to "surrender" at a meeting of
the Arab League in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, as
Saudi-led air raids continued to strike the group's positions for a
third day.

4 Iraqi soldiers killed fighting with IS in
Tikrit: Four Iraqi soldiers were
killed in street fighting with Islamic State militants in Tikrit
overnight as they advanced slowly into the city, a Sunni jihadist
bastion, in the wake of coalition air strikes, a security official said.

Top Kurdish ISIS leader killed in Mosul:
The top Kurdish ISIS leader, reportedly responsible for the death of
dozens of Kurdish civilians, was killed in coalition air strikes in
Mosul, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said Sunday.

Thousands flee Syrian city Idlib after rebel
capture : Idlib was the second major
city to fall from government control and represents a rare coup for the
country's fragmented opposition. But it also raises the prospect of this
strategically vital territory falling into the hands of Jabhat al-Nusra,
al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.

Putin letter to Arab summit triggers Saudi attack:
Saudi Arabia accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy
Sunday, telling an Arab summit that he should not express support for
the Middle East while fueling instability by supporting Syrian leader
Bashar Assad.

Report: PA to pause ICC steps in exchange for tax
revenues: According to the report,
the ICC prosecutor has opened a preliminary examination on alleged
Israeli war crimes during its devastating summer 2014 assault on Gaza.
Israel's prime minister's office announced Friday that Israel would
release the funds it collects on the PA's behalf and withheld as
punishment for its move to join the ICC.

Boko Haram kills 41, prevents hundreds voting in
Nigeria: - Boko Haram extremists
killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people
from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday in the
most closely contested presidential race in the nation's history.

Three killed in suicide attack targeting Afghan
MP: A suicide attacker targeting a
prominent Afghan MP killed three people including a child and wounded
seven others in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, just days after
Washington announced it would slow the withdrawal of US troops from
Afghanistan.

‘80,000 Pakistanis killed in US War on Terror’:
With the total number of casualties ranging between 81,325 and 81,860 in
Pakistan from 2004 until the end of 2013, the statistical breakdown is
as follows: civilians (48,504), journalists (45), civilians killed by
drones (416 – 95), Pakistani security forces (5,498) and militants
(26,862).

Hollande’s Socialist Party suffers setback in
French local elections: French
President François Hollande’s Socialist Party suffered an electoral
setback Sunday, March 22, as the center-right alliance of former
President Nicolas Sarkozy came out on top in the first round of local
elections and the far-right National Front took about a quarter of the
vote, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the south, a separatist movement calling for a "State of South
Arabia" is emerging. Fostered by the US, it will leave the Houthis with
two hostile states at their borders and locked access to the sea, if it
succeeds. Continue

The Republican Party is on a roll, having won two major elections in a
row. The first was winning control of the U.S. Congress last fall. The
second is the victory by the Republicans’ de facto party leader Benjamin
Netanyahu in Israel’s recent election. Continue

Tribes kill 21 Shiite rebels in south Yemen:
local official: At least 21 Yemeni Shiite rebels were killed Friday when
residents in a tribal southern region opened fire at their vehicles, a
local official and witnesses told AFP.

Fact or fiction? Israeli Fighter Jets Join Saudi Arabia in War on
Yemen: "This is for the first time
that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with
Arabs," Secretary General of Yemen's Al-Haq Political Party Hassan Zayd
wrote on his facebook page. He noted that Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu had issued direct orders for the Israeli air force to send
fighter jets to the Saudi-led air raid on Yemen.

Saudi military invasion, turning Yemen into Iraq,
Syria: Economist: Last time Saudi
Arabia intervened against Ansarullah in Yemen, it suffered blowback. In
response to Saudi airstrikes against the Ansarullah in and around the
Northern region of Saada, Ansarullah fighters crossed over the Saudi
border, seizing dozens of towns and villages.

Hezbollah leader slams Saudi intervention in
Yemen: Hassan Nasrallah rejected
Riyadh's claim that it had assembled a coalition to conduct airstrikes
against Shiite Houthi rebels in order to save Yemen, an operation named
"Decisive Storm." He said that since Israel was created in 1948 "there
has been no decisive storm or even a decisive breeze" to help the
Palestinians.

Russia regrets US double standards on Yemen:
The United States has followed double standards by providing support for
Yemen’s fleeing president and by denying the same to former Ukrainian
president, Viktor Yanukovich, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
said.

20 killed as Syrian army closes in on city near
Lebanese border: The Syrian army,
backed by Hezbollah fighters, closed in on the city of Zabadani near the
border with Lebanon on Friday, a Lebanese security source said, and
Syrian media said at least 20 insurgents had been killed in the battles
to seize high ground.

Israel to release tax funds to Palestinians:
Every month, Israel transfers to the PA around $127 million (118 million
euros) in customs duties levied on goods destined for Palestinian
markets that transit through Israeli ports

Ambassador among 10 killed in Somalia hotel Al
Shabaab attack : At least 10 people
have died in an attack by Al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militants on a
hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Somali security officials said
Friday. "There are at least 10 people killed, including Somalia's
ambassador to Switzerland who was in the hotel," one of the security
sources told AFP.

Homelessness in London soars by 79% since 2010 –
report: The number of people sleeping
rough on the streets of London has risen by over one-third in the past
year – twice the national average – government figures reveal. The
crisis has prompted homelessness charities to call for sweeping reforms.

Leave Facebook if you don't want to be spied on,
warns EU: The European Commission has
warned EU citizens that they should close their Facebook accounts if
they want to keep information private from US security services, finding
that current Safe Harbour legislation does not protect citizen’s data.

Amnesty International Whitewashes Venezuelan
Opposition : Amnesty International's
latest report on Venezuela calls for justice for the dozens of people
killed during the unrest that shook the country a year ago, while using
sleight of hand to deflect attention away from those responsible.

100 Saudi war planes were involved in the operation, The United Arab
Emirates is participating with 30 jets, Bahrain with 15, Qatar with 10,
Morocco and Jordan both with six, while Sudan offered three planes,
officials said. Continue

Through a careful review of recent history, Russia and Soviet scholar
Paul Robinson debunks the claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin is
directing the rebels fighting in Ukraine’s eastern region. Continue

US general: No decision to shield US-trained
rebels in Syria: The top U.S.
commander in the Middle East says he'd like his forces to protect the
Syrian rebels the U.S. is training to fight the Islamic State group.
But, Gen. Lloyd Austin told Congress Thursday, he's waiting for the
White House to respond to his recommendation.

Iraq: 35, including 28 Daesh militants killed in
Saladin: The 28 Daesh militants were
killed in Iraqi air force and U.S.-led international coalition
airstrikes on Tikrit, an Iraqi army officer said. Separately, seven
people were killed in an improvised explosives device blast at a home in
Is-haki town south of Tikrit, the officer added.

Iraqi Shiite militias 'pulled back' from Tikrit:
US: Iraq's Shiite militias have
withdrawn from the forefront of an offensive to recapture Tikrit from
Islamic State jihadists, allowing Baghdad government troops to take the
lead, a top US general said Thursday.

Saudi-led strikes kill 25 civilians in Sana’a:
Mohammad Al-Qubati, head of the Monitoring Department in the Ministry of
Health, confirmed that 25 had died and 40 were injured. He could not
verify in what parts of the city the victims came from.

Saudi-led military airstrikes renewed in Yemen:
Saudi forces and their allies renewed airstrikes against the Iran-backed
Houthis in Yemen, Sky News Arabiya reported Thursday afternoon, adding
that the airstrikes targeted Houthi sites and the Delmi airbase in the
Capital of Sanaa and Saada Governorate.

US Warships in Red Sea Ready to Respond in Yemen
- : Two United States warships stationed in the Red Sea are ready to
respond to the situation in Yemen as the US Department of Defense
closely monitors the Houthi uprising in the country, US Central Command
said on Thursday.

Pakistan delegation heads to Saudi Arabia after
Yemen request: Pakistan's government
said Thursday it will dispatch a top civil-military delegation to Saudi
Arabia following Riyadh's request that it join a coalition to defend
Yemen's president, promising a "strong response" to any threat to the
Gulf kingdom.

Russian expert: Saudi Arabia may suffer defeat in
Yemen: A military intervention by
Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen will trigger a large-scale conflict
in the region and most probably end with Riyadh's defeat, said expert on
Oriental studies, Higher School of Economic pedagogue Leonid Isayev, who
returned from a trip to Yemen on Wednesday.

21 Taliban killed in Afghan province:
A total of 21 Taliban militants including their key commander Mullah
Nurullah have been killed and eight others injured in Ghazni province
with Ghazni city as its capital 125 km south of Kabul on Wednesday,
deputy to provincial police chief Assadullah Insafi said.

Five killed, 10 hurt in missiles attack on Khost:
Spokesman to the provincial governor Mobarez Zadran said that 15 rockets
were fired from other side of the Durand Line.. Five civilian including
three women and two children were killed and 10 others including women,
men and children were wounded.

Putin says Western spies plot against Russia
before polls: "The attempts by
Western security services to use public, non-governmental organizations
and non-political groups for their own benefit, mostly to discredit the
authorities and destabilize the situation in Russia, have not stopped,"
Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency

Pentagon Sending Troops Into Ukraine In April:
According to a Department of Defense press release, the Pentagon is
sending 290 US service members into Ukraine to train Ukrainian military
units in April. The training will reportedly occur in the Ukrainian city
of Yavoriv near the Ukraine-Poland border.

Alone at controls, co-pilot
sought to ‘destroy’ the plane: The
co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit
and “intentionally” sent the plane full speed into a mountain in the
French Alps, ignoring the pilot’s frantic pounding on the door and the
screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Rand Paul Proposes Boosting Defense Spending:
In an olive branch to defense hawks hell-bent on curtailing his White
House ambitions, the libertarian Senator introduced a budget amendment
late Wednesday calling for a nearly $190 billion infusion to the defense
budget over the next two years—a roughly 16 percent increase.

The wars on Afghanistan
and Iraq are part of a broader military agenda,
which was launched at the end of the Cold War. The
ongoing war agenda is a continuation of the 1991
Gulf War and the NATO led wars on Yugoslavia
(1991-2001).

The overt theme is
unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of
domination. It calls for the United States to
maintain its overwhelming military superiority and
prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on
the world stage.

02/25/03 - The Project
for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a
Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above
all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The
establishment of a global American empire to bend
the will of all nations.

A highly classified
British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's
just-concluded election campaign, indicates that
President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to
ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his
policy.

Those who have hoped
that a U.S. military victory in Iraq would somehow
bring about a more peaceful world are in for a rude
awakening. The final resolution of this war and the
U.S. occupation of Iraq will likely not be the end,
rather, only the prelude to a succession of future
crises: in Kashmir, Syria, North Korea, and Iran.